The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-12-20
GOES DIf.
The Most Wonderful Local Option
Election i'm the State Yes.
terdav.
Clinton Goes DRY by a Majority
of Sixty-flve The County
500 Majority Dry.

Clinton, No, Dece..ber 1T Special.
The returns show thai this city Went %
majority dry and the county about five
hundred majority dry. Lewis, tn. prInci-
pal mining camp III The county gave a
majority of twenty-siI for The drys.
Capt. Shields and his wife, who
have been conducting the cam.
psign here, in connection with the lpcaI
temperance sdvoc .te., left this morning for
the .Oulh-rn part Of TIA. stale where hr
will continue the csmpaignin-. An im-
nense crowd OF ladies and gcntlamen e.
eorted theH to the depot - see them
Of
Last night, rs soon as The result OF tn.
election Wa known, the church bells yer.
wildly rung, b ndires starI~d and thu
Temperance people had a jubilee
When the voting beau Yesterday morn
ing both sides clalm-,i the cUy, ,nd both
we're NJ the polls early championing their
respective sides The wive-, moih-r. an :
daughters of the best fsmilIrs of the civ
were out In full force psrly, and stayed all
day pleading with men for votes and WELD
ing their strongest influence Tor local op-
ton with telling effect All day the war
fare OF ballots wag-d hot, bat for must
part good fe. ing prevs led. Challenges
kept several illegal votes from being ppllrd
Some negroes cam- from Kansas Ciy 10
vote against local option, but they werr
prevented In the second ward IN Clinton,
where nearly all the negro votes were C ,st,
and where the "wet> claimed a big ma
iority. The vote stood almost even In
the third ward where the Carpenters and
mechanics liv the WIS GAINED large
majority, but il went dry by ii
votes At 6 o'clock the polls closed, AMI
In a few miuut. The vote was announced,
giving the local optiOnists m ,iority OF %
IN the city.
A dinner was served by the women. The
work was continued Il the p,ll, after dun
ner with renewed energy and gooi feeling
among the drys. The ladies worked hsro-
ically, and when the las, ba tad hr Ell
cast and counted, aud the result ,scer
tanned. a grand rush was made for th- city
hall. Ii could not begin to hold the mul
titude, and bon6:ts were built in the cour,
yar';, and a rush made for the b md stand.
where Capt Dan X Shields AL ressed The
enthusiastic or ,wd. HE advised the people
to celebrate their victory in mo ierarIon,
and to take The def ated paths by the
hand and help to establish them in SON
legitimate business aud make good citizens
of thpm,
Various others who had engaged i'm thu
campaign were called upon and made two
minute talks. Mr.. Shields was wildly
called for, and she made some excellent re-
marks.
Congratulstory resolutions were passed,
lauding Cart. and Mrs. Shields, and the
banners, notices, transparencies and Il tgs
used in the Campaign here were presented
to them.
raise God from whom All Blessings
Flow" was sung twice, sweIled by III
voices of The assembled thousands, and sf-
ter btnedi, tion was offered the crowd
dispersed The boys formei procession
and marched through the town on foo, and
horseback. The msjoriries in the town
ships range from 40 vets to over 800 dry in
Wind or. The vote exc eds the expecta-
tions Of the must sanguine.